Problem Opening Programs, Windows 8.1
I have a fairly new Toshiba laptop running Win 8.1. When I click or double click on a desktop icon to open a program it often won't open. Even right clicking and clicking "open" often won't work. My m...
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LANShark42 wrote:
I stand corrected on the lifetime of win8. And its market share. But only 14% at 28 months?!? For an OS that comes preinstalled on almost every PC and laptop being sold today?? This tells me there are MANY others doing exactly what I sugggested the OP do. Even the End-of-lifed XP has more share.
My suggestion was not inappropriate at all. I've been in IT for 26 years, doing everything from mainframe operator to PC support to network administrator to storage engineer. So I'm fairly well-versed in how PCs and OSes operate. As I said, I gave the same advice I would give my sister. It's sad to see how many people here swallow Microsoft's propaganda... errr... marketing hook line and sinker.
Unfortunately, market share doesn't indicate whether one product is better or worse than another. For instance, look back at Beta vs VHS. Beta was clearly a better technology but VHS dominated the market. IMO, Win 8's limited market share is due to it getting an unwarranted bad rap from the press.
What is it that makes Win 8 so bad? If you don't use Modern apps or the Start screen, it works and acts pretty much like Win 7 (especially if you install Classic Shell). I personally bounce back and forth between Win 7 and Win 8 machines all day everyday and barely notice that I'm on a different OS since I use the same suite of programs on Win 8 that I use on Win 7.
Based on your extensive background, I'm surprised that you can't see that Win 8 is basically Win 7 with an added (but optional) Modern interface. I tell people if they don't like the Modern interface, don't use it. That doesn't make the whole OS bad.
